Poem of the week

passage tombs were being erected there ... several
centuries before the large Boyne Valley tombs
       – Bergh and Hensey, 2013

Only now do we know this land
on either side of a quiet lane
on the outskirts of our town
was where a country began,
a people first made a mark,
no longer hunter-gatherers
but farmers – and builders
of this wide necropolis,